vie a la table

as wil updates his new iphone (yipee for him!)…i’m sitting here trying to tell gracie that dinnertime is not right now, and still an hour away. man this girl would eat all the time if she could…

we’re here…for good this time. we had a great time in california, and i am so glad we took advantage of our bohemian life before school and potential work to see the faces we don’t get to see all that often.

got to meet our new nephew josiah and poked his chubby cheeks multiple times. we loved getting to see heidi and joe as well…and cruised through the redwoods on the zipline at the mount hermon family camp that they call home. thanks to leila for sprinkling in a bit of adventure to our weekend! we enjoyed having an unexpected friend date grabbing coffee in santa cruz…wil got to see an old friend from before moving to sisters in 7th grade (and i got to meet her for the first time!). fun fun!

instead of taking the regular i-5 down to the southern part of the state, we cruised along 101, moving in and out of agricultural areas and the coast…very pretty, and we wished we were going the opposite direction as we passed so many veggie stands with fresh picked items for dirt cheap! got to see grams and stay in arcadia, but of course, quickly made our way to the beach house. loved spending two beautiful days on the shore with grams, the vans, and michael and claire…but we were on to the next!

i don’t know what got into us that we voluntarily timed our trip to move more furniture and boxes into a freight truck (haven’t we done enough of that the last month or so???), but we got michael all packed for his return to oregon, and packed the truck in record time. ok, he did have only 6 boxes, compared to our 100.

another impromptu stop was to see our dear friend laura, who made the journey back to the west coast about a week prior to us. she lives in oakland now and we were sad to not be able to spend more than an hour with her and her boyfriend kevin. at least we’re only 7 or 8 hours away from one another instead of 7 or 8 states! we rounded off the trip in napa. and you can’t go to napa and see wil’s family without experiencing wine in every facet. this time, we had fun watching his grandpa and friend crush grapes they had picked earlier in the day and sip tastes out of oak barrels.

but, we are here now. i quickly unpacked my bag (i’m usually a ‘let it sit on the floor for about a week before unpacking’ kind of girl) because i was so excited to stop living out of a duffel bag. the dogs readjusted to the apartment and their daily routine in a matter of an hour or so, and we even went grocery shopping for real food instead of just frozen pizzas and peanut butter/jelly sandwich supplies.

for everyone who was about to ask, wil has orientation to start classes on 19th, and no i don’t have a job yet. i haven’t done anything since before we left tennessee, just being disconnected and uprooted for a few weeks. for the time being, we are chilling around the place…took our first rides on the max, wil got a new phone (and we also got new numbers…email or comment if i didn’t have your email to notify you, if you want me to give you the new digits!), and have watched a lot of favorite tv episodes online. the place is pretty much unpacked and set up…whatever piles are around are things that probably just need to go to storage. i’ll blow the dust off my camera and take pictures soon. we’ve definitely maxed out our closet capacity. i’ll probably be making a list at christmas of things we don’t want since we don’t have space! : /

hope you are all doing well!

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